A descriptive, diagnostic and practical essay on disorders of the digestive organs and general health, and particularly on their numerous forms and complications, contrasted with some acute and insidious diseases : being an attempt to prosecute the views of Dr. Hamilton and Mr. Abernethy, and a second edition of the essay On the mimoses, with additions / by Marshall Hall.

  • Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.
Date:
1820
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Credit: A descriptive, diagnostic and practical essay on disorders of the digestive organs and general health, and particularly on their numerous forms and complications, contrasted with some acute and insidious diseases : being an attempt to prosecute the views of Dr. Hamilton and Mr. Abernethy, and a second edition of the essay On the mimoses, with additions / by Marshall Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GO terist.ic, irregular, alternation of chilliness, feverish- ness, and perspiration. There is an obvious labour in respiration, which is aggravated on going up stairs or using active exertion; a full inspiration, however, does not always occasion inconvenience. The cough is slight and tickling at first, perhaps without vio- lence, and is less early attended with expectoration. The pulse is permanently frequent. 102. The complication of cough and expectoration may take place in either the more or the less severe form of the Mimosis Acuta, but I think the latter case is the more frequent.—In the severer form of Mimosis Acuta there is sometimes an evident labour in breath- ing which induces a movement and contraction of the nostrils, and there is a degree of cough with the expec- toration of a little viscid mucus.—In the less severe form of this affection there is often, for a considerable period, a copious expectoration of transparent, frothy, and viscid, and, at length, of opaque, and tinged mu- cus. There is a cough, hard-sounding* at first, and occurring in fits; afterwards easier and less in fits as the expectoration assumes more of the puritorm ap- pearance; and again difficult and in painful fits as the strength of the patient declines. The pulse is at first little accelerated; the respiration little affected, and the nostrils unmoved; but a degree of movement of the nostrils, of labour in the respiration, and of fre- quency of the pulse, is observed as the expectoration becomes puriform, and streaked with blood, and as